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It's never been more obvious than it's been since the black man took office. Every Republican in America is envious and pissed off that the voters had the audacity to elect a black man not once but twice. The Republicans have blocked or tried to block everything the president has tried to do for middle America. Get used to having your greedy asses kicked because that's exactly what the future holds for you and yours.
A few years ago I would have vehemently disagreed with what this poster said, but I am considerably less convinced now that the GOP isn't motivated by an unconscious prejudice.
It just seems so odd how many unprecedented actions the GOP has taken. They have shut down political appointments on a huge scale in both the judicial and executive branches and every old school politician who is retiring, whether Democrat or Republican, is lamenting at the extraordinary amount of animosity that exists at the Capital. It is hard to say what the GOP represents anymore, or even WHO they represent. Are they are just about doing everything they can to shut down Obama, even during those times when what he is aiming for is something that everyone wants?
So many middle class folk seem to feel abandoned by the GOP and I don't hear anything from the GOP that would disprove that they aren't the Grand Old Millionaires and Billionaires Party that they are portrayed by the media to be. Even Republican posters on this forum seem to jump at the chance to declare anyone who disagrees with the GOP's economic policies to be "moochers, parasites, envious, jealous, etc."
Is it racism? Is it classism? What is the source of this great animosity?
Well, Paula Deen plans southern plantation-style weddings where the servers are niggers with white shirts and bow ties like they were before the Civil War.
Now, who is the racist? Someone who used the term nigger in 1965 or you, using it today?
Just saying....
A few years ago I would have vehemently disagreed with what this poster said, but I am considerably less convinced now that the GOP isn't motivated by an unconscious prejudice.
It just seems so odd how many unprecedented actions the GOP has taken. They have shut down political appointments on a huge scale in both the judicial and executive branches and every old school politician who is retiring, whether Democrat or Republican, is lamenting at the extraordinary amount of animosity that exists at the Capital. It is hard to say what the GOP represents anymore, or even WHO they represent. Are they are just about doing everything they can to shut down Obama, even during those times when what he is aiming for is something that everyone wants?
So many middle class folk seem to feel abandoned by the GOP and I don't hear anything from the GOP that would disprove that they aren't the Grand Old Millionaires and Billionaires Party that they are portrayed by the media to be. Even Republican posters on this forum seem to jump at the chance to declare anyone who disagrees with the GOP's economic policies to be "moochers, parasites, envious, jealous, etc."
Is it racism? Is it classism? What is the source of this great animosity?
Yet people actually vote for these nincompoops.The term "GOP" is to generic. There really are a lot of sub-groups within the overall category.
I have friends who claim to be "Conservative" or "republican" but they really just have fiscal responsibility issues and they aren't anti-gay or anti-legit welfare. So, they aren't claasist or rich.
I do think it's stupid to continue the Obama bashing. After all, he is already elected so wasting time with repeated anti-abortion bills instead of productive actions is pathetic. But it's a minority that does this and then they all get painted with the same brush. Regrettably, this vocal minority repeatedly over-shadows the topics on which the GOP could be contributing.
The animosity game has become the new normal. But America keeps functioning in spite of, not because of our loony politicians.
Logic eludes you.
Yet people actually vote for these nincompoops.
Extremism of ideology.
The term "GOP" is to generic. There really are a lot of sub-groups within the overall category.
I have friends who claim to be "Conservative" or "republican" but they really just have fiscal responsibility issues and they aren't anti-gay or anti-legit welfare. So, they aren't claasist or rich.
I do think it's stupid to continue the Obama bashing. After all, he is already elected so wasting time with repeated anti-abortion bills instead of productive actions is pathetic. But it's a minority that does this and then they all get painted with the same brush. Regrettably, this vocal minority repeatedly over-shadows the topics on which the GOP could be contributing.
The animosity game has become the new normal. But America keeps functioning in spite of, not because of our loony politicians.
Have you ever heard the expression, "Every "X" has it's 10%"?
Like when you hear about some 'roided up cop pulling his gun on a five-year-old girl or something like that your cop friends are like, "Not all cops are like that, every profession has it's 10%".
Well kinda like that most every demographic has it's 10% that are just lowlifes.
Guess what percentage of Republicans vote in primaries?
Right, about 10%.
So the quality of folks standing for election, and more importanly reelection from the Republican Party is decided by the far-right-wing 10% that controls a candidate's primary electoral destiny.
The idea is, "We put you into office, and we can get you out by running a more "conservative" candidate against you in the next primary if you don't toe the line".
In thoroughly Red states, those where a Democrat hasn't won a race since the realignment, the general election is more or less determined by who wins the primary.
You can pretty much rest assured that the folks talking about anyone who isn't a multimillionaire as being "moochers, parasites, envious, jealous, etc." arte Republican primary voters.
It doesn't matter what the actual politicians think, the bottom line is that they have to cater to the ignorant, uneducated, inbred 10% that votes in the primary.
But where did it come from? Obama was a pragmatist. He was a moderate Democrat when he was first elected. During that election he was painted as a socialist. That rhetoric and his choice to push through a conservative plan to fix the health care system by subsidizing private health insurance led to a revolt among the conservative base that I have a hard time believing would have occurred with any other politician. They have subsequently impeded everything he has tried to do and argued that he is the uncompromising one. Now I think that Obama really has become a Socialist because he just doesn't care anymore about trying to be pragmatic. That or he has to push the agenda so far to the left that through the subsequent concessions to the GOP it falls where he actually wants it.
A few years ago I would have vehemently disagreed with what this poster said, but I am considerably less convinced now that the GOP isn't motivated by an unconscious prejudice.
It just seems so odd how many unprecedented actions the GOP has taken. They have shut down political appointments on a huge scale in both the judicial and executive branches and every old school politician who is retiring, whether Democrat or Republican, is lamenting at the extraordinary amount of animosity that exists at the Capital. It is hard to say what the GOP represents anymore, or even WHO they represent. Are they are just about doing everything they can to shut down Obama, even during those times when what he is aiming for is something that everyone wants?
So many middle class folk seem to feel abandoned by the GOP and I don't hear anything from the GOP that would disprove that they aren't the Grand Old Millionaires and Billionaires Party that they are portrayed by the media to be. Even Republican posters on this forum seem to jump at the chance to declare anyone who disagrees with the GOP's economic policies to be "moochers, parasites, envious, jealous, etc."
Is it racism? Is it classism? What is the source of this great animosity?
Good lord! Why would the rest of the Republican Party even tolerate it? At a certain point, you would think they would start showing up to vote. Are they just that lazy?
But where did it come from? Obama was a pragmatist. He was a moderate Democrat when he was first elected. During that election he was painted as a socialist. That rhetoric and his choice to push through a conservative plan to fix the health care system by subsidizing private health insurance led to a revolt among the conservative base that I have a hard time believing would have occurred with any other politician. They have subsequently impeded everything he has tried to do and argued that he is the uncompromising one. Now I think that Obama really has become a Socialist because he just doesn't care anymore about trying to be pragmatic. That or he has to push the agenda so far to the left that through the subsequent concessions to the GOP it falls where he actually wants it.
The GOP isn't any more "classist" or "racist" than the democrats, as you mentioned there are pockets of each, but they do not represent the party as a whole.
The current Obama bashing is par for the course for a last term POTUS by the opposing party. The nastiness/animosity involved is not any greater than what has taken place on and off over the course of our history. It's just more immediate and in your face considering the state of modern communications and the modern press.
A few years ago I would have vehemently disagreed with what this poster said, but I am considerably less convinced now that the GOP isn't motivated by an unconscious prejudice.
It just seems so odd how many unprecedented actions the GOP has taken. They have shut down political appointments on a huge scale in both the judicial and executive branches and every old school politician who is retiring, whether Democrat or Republican, is lamenting at the extraordinary amount of animosity that exists at the Capital. It is hard to say what the GOP represents anymore, or even WHO they represent. Are they are just about doing everything they can to shut down Obama, even during those times when what he is aiming for is something that everyone wants?
So many middle class folk seem to feel abandoned by the GOP and I don't hear anything from the GOP that would disprove that they aren't the Grand Old Millionaires and Billionaires Party that they are portrayed by the media to be. Even Republican posters on this forum seem to jump at the chance to declare anyone who disagrees with the GOP's economic policies to be "moochers, parasites, envious, jealous, etc."
Is it racism? Is it classism? What is the source of this great animosity?
The GOP isn't any more "classist" or "racist" than the democrats, as you mentioned there are pockets of each, but they do not represent the party as a whole.
The current Obama bashing is par for the course for a last term POTUS by the opposing party. The nastiness/animosity involved is not any greater than what has taken place on and off over the course of our history. It's just more immediate and in your face considering the state of modern communications and the modern press.
I'll put that question somewhat in reverse. If your objection is to policies that boil down to "from each according to their ability (to pay taxes), to each according to their need (for free stuff)" are you therefore against the "common man" and for the "rich man"?
The idea of using the gov't power of taxation to force "proper" income redistribution to achieve "social justice" or economic "fairness" requires treating individual economic success as a bad thing that must be taxed more and economic "need" as something that deserves rewarding (fixing?). Generally the rich do not get rich by taking from the poor but by providing goods and/or services that people willingly buy.
The idea that any individual's lack of personal income is really the fault of society and thus must be "fixed" by a gov't handout, taken from the "excess" that was attained by another's honest efforts is not in keeping with a free society. The percentage of federal spending that is purely for income redistribution is already alarming, yet growing rapidly. We now, at the federal level, "must" spend 43% more than that we are willing to collect by direct taxation. Saying "no" to continuing or expanding that borrow and redistribute scheme is not racism or classism - it is simply logical.
Well, Paula Deen plans southern plantation-style weddings where the servers are niggers with white shirts and bow ties like they were before the Civil War.
The constant use of "playing the race card" as a response to discussions of racism by Republicans is one of the reasons Republicans are perceived as hostile to black people. It's dismissive and treats racism as nothing more than a political tool instead of an actual thing that people perceive and experience.Don't you think this particular race card has been quite thoroughly worn out?
Believe it or not, there are many of us who identify as Republicans, who don't give a rat's ass about the color of the President's skin, but who believe that his policies are the very worst that any President has inflicted on this nation, and that they would not be any more acceptable to us if he were a light-skinned, blue-eyed, blond-haired Caucasian. It is only his supporters who resort to playing the race card, and that is only because they know that they cannot defend the content of his policies or of his character.
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